Standard Chartered puts Bitcoin and Ether trading inside UAE bank accounts

Standard Chartered now lets eligible professional investors in the UAE trade Bitcoin and Ether through their existing bank accounts. That removes the separate exchange account from the basic setup and puts crypto execution inside a conventional banking relationship.

The launch covers only those two assets and does not extend to the bank’s full retail customer base. Standard Chartered was reported as the first international bank in the UAE to offer Bitcoin trading directly through eligible clients’ accounts.